What exactly did Meirin accomplish during her appearance in the show? Nothing.
Some banter, some crying and screaming and now leaving.
Great looks, nice numbers, cool moments and a waaay too produced finale. Seems soulless.
What a funny roast! So refreshing when they are good!
The second group was a little lackluster.
The talents were mid, the lipsync was mid, the charisma was lacking.
Plane Jane is funny tho
Heavily inspired by the "men's adventure" comics from the 20's and 30's, where the characters would face the environment challenges and uncover some deeper knowledge about themselves in the process, this movie evokes the right tone and feeling of those stories. Starting with a comic book sequence to hit the reference in the head, it presents us to the type of story we are about to embark to.
A movie about generational trauma and using the screen time to flash out the conflicts of dealing with family in a very polarized world of today, "Strange World" brings a journey about trauma, healing and acceptance.
The characters are modern, imperfect and their growth is dealt on screen with conversation and work. Disney now and then delivers a movie a little more daring that flies over the head of people and takes some time to get his recognition.
With beautiful visuals, good mix of 2D texture finalization on 3D models, and fun characters, the movie by itself is a feast to the eyes. With a solid script focusing on the generational conflict and it's resolution, "Strange World" it's a great time with a nice message of commiting to change what we must for those we care.
not Kourtney immediately telling Kim after Chloe specifically asked her not to.
Great group presentation, amazing runaway and awesome lipsync and that end was the gag of the season! I'm still chocked Piche Returned.
Despite the mild lipsync, the mini challenge was really funny and the maxi challenge was as touching as ongina viva glam campaign. Amazing runaway with beautiful looks! they all looked good.
Maybe I’m one of the few who really enjoyed this episode, and I’m just saddened that this is the case.
“Time to Fly” is a action based episode to show in few dialogue the dynamics between Ashoka and Sabine, a dynamic which we only hear offscreen but so far never seen it.
The chase is the part where both of them need to find common ground and survive together. Sabine must put aside her frustration in her training and Ahsoka must start believing more in Sabine’s insights. When they finally start to listen to each other, they are able to flee and with 20 min you can feel that they had done this many times before and cast light over a relationship crucial to this show and to the plot it is creating. With few episodes I believe this was necessary, as much as the Mandalorian Episode where Grogu eats Spider eggs while Mando tries to free the ship from the ice. Few dialogues, storytelling by action. [Which is also written by Filoni]
Ahsoka space lightsaber fight was something never done before in Star Wars tv and movies and it was thrilling to see and the Huyang perception of Sabine as one of a line of Jedi’s who defies the common Jedi rules (Dooku>Qui-Gon>Obi Wan> Anakin > Ahsoka)
Was a nice new point of view on Sabine being a Padawan.
The chase is not about the stakes or the survival of the characters. The story plays as it is being told to you after they survived, and you want to know how. How one single ship on enemy space scape 6 ships and three heavy cannons and lived tell their story. It’s not about the stakes of who will leave or not, but what they will endure until they find their friend.
We also have an insight on why Ahsoka trained Sabine and how she perceives Sabine and the use of the force as something anybody can do, going beyond the Jedi order. She is not training Sabine as a Jedi Padawan, but as a Rogue force user apprentice. This breaks again the binary viewing of the force and help expands the notion of Ahsoka being a renegade gray Jedi.
Not only this, but after Rebels and Andor, seeing the rise of the rebel alliance and with Mandalorian seeing the inefficiency of the New republic, the Hera and Chancellor part of the episode showed the sense of suspicion of the new senate and how they were able to allow the first order to return.
Amazing episode with a lot done in 37 minutes and few dialogues. A feast to the eyes with the chase between the Purgills, thrilling to see how Sabine and Ahsoka worked to fight the enemies and new information to the plot of the series that just make this really really interesting!
Can’t wait to see where this is going!
These runway edits are driving me crazy.
First Episode where Ru is actually in the same studio as the contestants.
What a boring cast, gosh.
At this point, the way production is pushing Christian to win over regina is making the narrative of this season very awkward.
Great Rusical, with great acting and singing from Regina. Christian was good but not enough to win.
I feel like production is pushing Christian as the winner and this may hurt the season narrative.
As I came to understand with some time, Black mirror is directly talking about media, specifically TV and its derivatives, and our relation with it. In this season, we explore the VHS tech, the Long distance call as avatars, the streaming services, and our exploration of the stars related to this media, To finally end talking about the alienation, the maddening behavior, the inflammation of speeches that comes with this media, this magic mirror we have at home.
Having also a take on genres and exploring the technology that surrounds us since the sixties, the writer and creator also pays homage to British entertainment television while making commentaries on the repercussion these things have in our own story. The woman that gets the protagonist of her life taken from her, the man that loses father, mother and girlfriend to achieve success. The astronaut who loses his family due to gesture of humanity, or the actress who is exposed to the supernatural just for being in the wrong place to record a series.
Finally we have the point of view of a woman cast aside by her reality, treat as less than human by her social circle, and who finds in the tv and the things they show, a comfort.
It’s no coincidence that when this supernatural force materializes, it shows itself as something from Tv, and uses the Tv as a mirror to see itself for the first time.
With its powers, in a snap of s finger, the demon played small edits and cuts from future occurrences, possibilities,
I will not spoil the end here, but I believe you got the point now.
This is still black mirror, it’s still talking about tech and their implications in people’s life’s, but ultimately is providing good stories, condensed movies with plots that entertain.
Loved this season.
The Mandalorian started with episodic adventures that was tied together by a “main quest” .
Just like rebels, clone wars and resistance, the star wars shows like to present the universe details in small incapsulated adventures and they hit you with a epsiode of epic proportions that pay’s off.
Episodes like the one where Din’s Ship fellon Ice and Grogu started eatting spider eggs, where semmed like a creature of the week episode was in fact, the espiode where we met the new rebuplic pilot who reached for he mandalorians this season.
This episode showed the places of galaxy where the independence brought by the fall of the empire made the planet prosper, and how some outer rim planets are closer to mid rim lifestyle that to Jakku or Tatooine. We got a droid bar, and is nice since we saw some instances of “we don’t serve their kind here” ad now we can see that they had places for them.
We were able to see that not all people mistrusted Dooku and how they believed that the Emperor betrayed him and his goals when he took the galaxy. We got also to see the mandalorian lore expand as they show how they are strict to their rules and protocols.
In top of all that, we were able the see the bond that is the main core of this season : Bo and Din. They respect the ways of one another and also grew very fond for each other, making Bo defend Din and Din defend Bo right to have the saber.
the technicality of the saber. I know that some were expecting a duel between Bo and Din, but what a cliche seen so many times, and we knew that she had to win since din does no wish to rule the Mandalorians and if Din wins would deminsh Bo’s quest, so I think the technicality was nice way to link the episode where she rescues him with the rest of the story.
Very nice episodes with a lot of information to uncover. Noticed how they lived in Dome cities just like old Mandalore from Clone Wars era?
Ah Karabast! Zeb was such a treat !
It just baffles me this type of comments where people complain of the time jumps. It is not that hard to understand and the books did the same thing jumping every 50 years or so. Go along with the story, this is not about individuals or specific characters, this is about foundation and the story of this plan no one knew how could save the empire.
Great show with great production value and a script well written that delivers information in different ways without explaining everything to everybody.
Inspired by the lawyer shows like Ally Mcbeal, with a lighthearted tone, She Hulk is full comedy and not taking itself to serious all the time, is Marvel venting escape, where they can laugh about themselves and the universe Kevin designed and created.
Based on a comic where breaking the fourth wall - most like deadpool - is part of the character powers, this show kept playing it smart every singe episode to finally deliver the joke in this episode.
Very innovative, fun and comic like, The break of the fourth wall in this episodes let us know that not only marvel knows about the critics we’ve saying for a few years now, and is working on them.
Jen Walters is a fun character with a nice roaster of side characters and even Kevin saying she will not go the big screen, it would be great to see her in the theaters and not only on TV.
Nice ending for a pretty good first season that cares not to rush things like other marvel shows.
It’s funny how this episode does for the show the same thing that is happening inside the show. This is an episode about Jen, it is an episode abou her fighting fir herself, accepting this new part of her and dealing with the fact that now she js, this she hulk. Since the episode has no She hulk action, people seem to hate it, just like people in the show seem not to care about Jen, but only with She hulk, when in fact, this “boring” life you are experiencing in this episode, is her life, is her battles, so it is nice to the show to acknowledge that. Even banner has a hole movie as banner so we can remember that not only the Hulk is part of this character.
Good one.
When Sandman was created the comics changed the ways comics narratives were written. The protagonist was not a hero, had no clear purpose and his story was a conveyor to explore the mystical and the onirical.
The first arch of him getting back his tools is kinda straight forward but as episode 6 states, Sandman loses his focus and his purpose, is when a dream vortex appears, catching his attention. While this happens we travel between several dreams and learn more about the laws of his universe. This is sandman at his core, a travel between dreams in a mythical america.
Some people may enjoy the ride, some don't but feeling lost and finding himself again is exactly what we do in dreams. And in Sandman.
Once in a deep forest, forsaken by the wars the men fought, a mermaid loses one of her scales in her pond.
Covered in gold, the piece lays in the dirt with many of it's sisters, resting away from her and her body.
One of the officers of a Spanish Garrison, a deaf soldier separates himself to bathe himself in the waters of the pond, only to discover the golden scales of the mermaid.
Deciding to keep this treasure to himself, he is unaware that removing the scales from its natural bed, he would be triggering their owner's rage. With a simple scream she could hypnotize and enchant the men, but only if they could hear.
Ignorant to his luck, the soldier misses the mermaid dance and it's effects on the garrison, that now lays dead in the other side of the pond. Ignorant was also the mermaid, impressed by the solder resistance to her powers, and curious about his nature. For once, one of them was not vile, not crazy, if only she new that when he had put his eyes on her, the effect of her gold provided the same trance as her voice, he was determined to possess her.
She sang to a deaf man, he danced to a silent song. When both finally were together, a fatal blow from him was enough to have her, to clean her like a fish, removing her from her golden plumage.
Her magic blood, enraging the nature, informed the forest that an elemental has been hurt, a maiden of the waters, a pure force. Acting his revenge on the solder, the magic blood found his way to his mouth, his body.
He now could hear, could now choose between go crazy or tame this new world, he was really happy. But not for long, because now he could hear, he could know the mermaid's pain, he could be entranced to dance with her one more time.
She could return from the depths of the water where her naked body lays dead, and act her justice on the one who stole her beauty, her pride and her magic.
And this is only the surface of this story, so layered and profound. The best piece of animation I've seen recently.
So after freeing the hosts from the loops they lived in, bring them to the real world, where humans lived in their own loops, Dolores last season was dissolved into Rehoboam and now, after Rehoboam deleted himself, the only thing left predicting storylines is Dolores, who's mind created a reality to cope that she is now fighting.
It's funny how Caleb had been fighting for freedom only to find himself lost in it's peace. He is a fighter, a player and he is now out of his loop. Maeve is the only one who's purpose of providing a safe reality to her daughter has kept her with a cohesive storyline.
I can't wait to see how the rest of the bunch is doing, Dolores/Charlotte who lost her family last season and created the host William.
If Delos wanted to find immortality mapping guests minds and putting them in hosts and Rehoboam was a failed attempt from humanity to find order, which led to a bunch of outliers locked outside society, this post war world where Caleb is living is the fight between the immortal delos hosts and the freed humans,this season has to be the end of the show.
13 years later and the amazing computer animation still holds. When saying computer animation, most people forget the 11 years of making this movie come true from a team of people invested in every detail of this universe. The story is the most simple and most common one, to attract and affect the broadest of viewers. It's not over complicated, does not pretend to be more than it is : a new jurassic park for our generation. The detail in photography, art direction, concept design, sound mixing and animation directing still amazes movie makers until today. This movie started not only technologies that made the bed for Marvel Movies of today, it cemented itself as one of the greatest achievements of a movie maker to this day. Cameron delivers the most simple of stories in a compelling way, knowing when to pause and frame the action so the viewer can understand what is happening. The movie has its calms and reflexive moments about the culture of this planet but it nevers slows its pacing. Despite the criticism of people that or fail to understand the cinematographic achievement of this movie or its impact in the entretainment business, Avatar is about to get its sequel 13 years later and it's well deserved to see what Cameron can do with the technology available today.
WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT? I MEAN. WHAT?? COME ON.
If you do therapy you like it, if you don't, you hate it.
pretty much it.
I remember renting with my older brother "Scream" When I was 7 because my parents not really controlled what I watch. The movie had just come out, and It was a smashing hit. Everybody was talking about it.
I obviously couldn't get mos of the movie, but I was really impressed. Jason and Freddie were not that of a thing in the late 90s and seeing ghost face really made a mark on me. I got a ghost face costume for carnival that year (we dress up in that time of year in Brazil) with a slip-in- blade plastic knife. My friends And I would play hide-and-seek with one of us dressed up as Ghost face, and you should stab when finding someone. It was kinda twisted looking back, but we're kids, we had no clue.
The point being, I've been watching this franchise since my early years, and have revisited this movies several times during my life, watched most of them in the theaters after the first one and followed all the Wes Craven movies because of this franchise.
Coming back to this movie, I was not expecting much since it was not Wes critique of scary movies as it was before, but other people looking into his work and creating a "requel" as they call it. I'm happy to say I've screamed, jumped, laughed and clapped during this movie and was really happy with the final result. I even allowed a second of tears for a beloved character who saw an end in this movie, And I'm glad to say that in an era of reboots, unnecessary sequels - I'm talking to you Matrix 4 - this one is a fresh script and great addition to the source material.
First of all : Jonathan Frakes Directed the shit out of this episode. The Discovery burning scene at the sound of Stormy Weather was just beautiful to watch.
What we fail to realize is that Star Trek also, - I say also because Trek is about many things - Is about what we, as viewers, need to remember and see and aspire to the future. TOS was about diversity and acceptance, with black women, Russian teenagers and Japanese swordsman guided by an American misogynist with serious problems at following rules, but with a great capability of seeing the strength in their diversity. A much-needed point of view for the 60s.
TNG and DS9 had this more realistic approach in their stories, dealing more with the personal drama, adding the Counselor position and showing the need of dealing with the psychological result of being so advanced. Just as we move forward from several distressful political changes in our world in the late 80s and the 90s. Voyager and finally Enterprise had this message of "finding our way back" and "looking where everything started" that came with the late 90s and early 2000s when humanity decoded the DNA code and shifting to the internet world.
And now we get Discovery: A series about a society that acknowledges their traumas, and accepts that everyone in some way was traumatized in their lives and if they don't deal with this now, we will never be able to move forward. We have a show about people talking about their feelings - yes, we can do that too - just as in TNG or in DS9, but this time the hole series is about that need, that desire to heal, to mend, to fix.
The computer becoming emotionally sentient is nothing but a new level of this idea that adding feeling to the equation is not detrimental, is evolutionary. And in a detached and divisive society that we live today, that is exactly what Trek need to talk about. A future where we are not afraid of dealing with our traumas and moving forward a better being.
It is no mistake the symbol of the show is cracked by a rift, the person inside this society are also cracked, and their evolution is emotional.
I was so confused since I started this season, trying to understand why I was so detached from its massage, and why people were so bothered about a show presenting why everybody needs therapy and talk about their traumas. And then it hit me : this is what we need to see, and our frustration with the show's message just proves it.
Edit: The allusion to Hal 9000 singing "Daisy" Scene from Kubrick's 2001 was just priceless!
Why It's so hard to feel anything while watching this episode? I was completed zoned out.
What a predictable and already done this script was.
I'm sorry for who is paying paramount+ to watch this.
If you saw Star Trek Beyond/Star Trek Into Darkness, then you already saw half of this episode.
the other half is not that interesting.